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Mommy, daddy — and Hello Kitty — welcome newborns at a cat-themed Taiwan maternity hospital that hopes the Japanese cartoon icon will ease the stress of childbirth as well as boost business.
The 30-bed Hau Sheng Hospital in Yuanlin in central Taiwan claims to be the only institution of its kind authorized by the popular cartoon cat's parent company Sanrio Co Ltd.
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88 Keys dropped one of the best rap mainstream album since Lupe Fiasco (in my humble opinion). AND he's such a funny fellow, damn! Must watch video.
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Great read to whoever is interested in how f*ckd up things are going down right now in Canadian politics
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Not too long ago, one of the Gmail engineers broke out her vinyl cutter and made some Gmail m-velope stickers. Pretty soon, they were pasted to our desks, stuck on our laptops, and adorning the walls around the office. Then other people started asking us about them — first it was just other Googlers. But when a guy I was sitting next to on an airplane asked where he could get a Gmail sticker, we realized other people might like them too.
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Ok I'm a year late. SO WHAT?! ;P
The European premier of this concept by Alan Kalkin and illy took place at the 52nd Venice Biennale where illy continues to partner with the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia by providing the visitors each year a space to relax and enjoy their complimentary espresso. This was illy’s fourth year of establishing the refreshment area at the Biennale but the Push Button House version created an unprecedented buzz.
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Rough-Luxe is a new way of looking at luxury as a moment in time and not only part of an object of consumption. Luxury is an enriching personal experience and not only an ownership of an expensive object.
Therefore, the Rough-Luxe definition of Luxury is: time for reflexion, personal encounters with people, nature, architecture and environment as well as food and social and cultural experiences linked to geographic locations. It is also, the intellectual solicitation, listening to ones own feelings as well as comparing objects and time and thinking of their hierarchy.
Rough-Luxe is about the experience, the surrounding, the intrinsic value of objects, art, culture and the people surrounding us as well as the ‘‘consumable’’ items, that you come across in a Rough-Luxe hotel or affiliated business or event. -
The Ace team are a curious hybrid – romantics with an unswerving business savvy, easy-going yet ultra-professional. They’re not interested in cooler-than-thou design statements, but in creating a hotel with soul. In doing so, they’ve tapped into what a growing market of cultural influencers and opinion leaders want, and inadvertently created their own marketing machine. Any new hotel can make bold statements and win PR hype when it launches– but it takes word of mouth recommendations to make a business flourish. It wasn’t long before Time Magazine nominated the Ace team as “the next wave” of hoteliers in a list of 100 innovators.
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So this is Rough Luxe. Half rough, half luxury. A little bit of luxury in a rough part of London. A little bit of rough in a luxurious London.
Our philosophy is simple; you are staying with us in our home, so just ask.
[...] transformed by internationally acclaimed designer Rabih Hage and is connected to a Contemporary Art Gallery in the courtyard behind, where you will also find the Coffee Bar. Open to the public by reservation only during the week, our Coffee Bar and Tea Room have a delicious selection of sandwiches and pastries and the finest coffee in London, while Rough Luxe Afternoon Tea is served most weekdays between 3.30pm and 5.30pm.
Guests at a Rough Luxe hotel might share a bathroom or have a small room, but the luxury is in the choice of the wine, the bed linen, the art on the walls and the people looking after you.
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In this month monthly briefing, Trendwatching is presenting 6 trends for 2009:
nichetributes (low-cost, practical tributes to the zeitgeist)
luxyoury (self-defined luxury)
Feedback 3.0 (toward full transparency)
Econcierge (savings are the new green)
Mapmania (why maps are the new interface)
Happy ending (not kidding) (the silver lining of each downturn)I'm redirecting you to their pdf file since the link for the webpage will change next month (trendwatching.com/briefing if you just wanna check the webpage)
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t first sight, the two couples who entered the Harry Winston store in Paris resembled the sophisticated international clientele that frequents this most exclusive of jewellers.
But staff soon realised something was amiss. The two women were really men disguised in wigs and dresses, and they and their supposed partners were holding guns.
They herded the 15 or so employees and customers into a corner — hitting some over the head in the process — loaded necklaces, broaches, watches and other valuables into their bags, and made off with a haul valued at €85 million.
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